CHAPTER IV.

Our Log Cabin--Pi-pita-tua--Increase of our Party--The Dry Diggings of Weaver’s Creek--The “Pockets” and “Nests”--Theory of the Gold Region--My First Day’s Labour in the _Placers_--Extravagant Reports from the Middle Fork--Start for Culoma--Approach of the Rainy Season--The “Devil’s Punch-Bowl,” 59